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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-08-19

In pursuance of Act of Assembly
passed January Session 1886, Chapter
$40, the undersigned, Treasurer of Cecil
County, hereby gives notice that, for
the purpose of receiving the
State, County, and Dog Taxes
in said county, for the year 1887, he
will sit in the several Election Dis
tricts, as follows:
August 18th and 11th--At the County
Commissioners Office in Elkton.
Third District.
August 18th and 15th-At George S.
Woolley's Office, Chesapeake City, Sec.
end District.
August 10th and 17th-At Patrick
Anderson's, Cecilton, First District.
August 18th and 19th-At Henry
Hess, Fair Hill, Fourth District.
August Goth and 22nd-At r. L.
Thomas, North East, Fifth District.
August 23rd and 24-At Jerome Kim
BELLS, Rising Sun, Sixth District.
August 25th and 26th-At E. p.
Brickley's, Port Deposit, Seventh Dis
trict.
August 9th and 29th-At J. J. Ben
nett's, Mount Pleasant, Eighth Dist.
August 3Oth and 31st--At }. Harvey
Clark's, Calvert, Ninth District.
Between the hours of 8 A. NJ. and p. NJ.
AS the law provides, Discount of
5 per cent will be allowed on all State
and County Taxes paid before Septem
Der LIST.
Taxpayers will please take notice
that Taxes will be due and payable on
Septemb Der LIST, and that on all bills un-
paid ON January lst interest will be
charged and collected from September
1st. After January LIST delmquents
will be warned that unless settlement
in full be made before April 1st, the
claims against chem will be
of the county, who shall proceed to
seize their property and dispose of the
same to pay the Taxes due, with the
charges thereon, and all costs of sale.
Dogs and Shuts, whose owners have no
other property, will be killed.
The Treasurer would, therefore, re-
specially urge all Tax payers to pay
promptly, and. if'possible, in time to
obtain the benefits of the discount
CHARLES L. MOORE,
Treasurer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-08-19
NOTICE

BY THE ORPHANS COURT FOR CECIL COUNTY,
January II, 1882. !
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Elk.
ecutors and Guardians that have not stated
an account within year. come forward and
do the same, or show cause to the contrary,
or they will be cited up.
Test: r. E. LAMAR, Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-08-19
Treasurer's Notice,

In pursuance of Act of Assembly,
passed January Session 1886, Chapter
$40, the undersigned, Treasurer of Cecil
County. hereby gives notice that, for
the purpose of receiving the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-08-19
by OIuer
JOHN S. ROssELL, Clerk.
STATE and COUNTY TAX LEVY
OF 1897

In pursuance ofan Act of Assembly, pass
ed January Session 1886, Chapter 340 no
tIce is hereby given that The County Com
missioners of Cecil County, at a meeting
held by them on June 80, leyied the State
and County Taxes for 1887, as follows-the
rate of State Tax, as fixed by law, being Isl
cents on each $500 of the basis of State taxa
ton, and the rate of County Tax, as fixed
by the Commissioners, being so cents on
each 800 of the basis of County taxation:
STATE TAX. $24, 465 O6
COUNTY TAX
Aims House. ...$5, 800 90
Bonds Maturing. $3.50. $500 90
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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17
Silencing a Noisy Talker.

was greatly amused the other night
by the delicate use TO which gentleman
within ten feet Of me put a venerable
scheme for silencing noisy takers. He
had glared and Missed 50 persistently at n
young man and a young woman behind
him who chartered without ceasing that
from kissing the two men got to words,
and when the curtain fell oh an intermis-
sion there were explanations demanded.
The man who wanted Ia hear the music
turned around and said I'm the blandest
tones, but so clearly that every one within
ten feet could hear: "My dear sir, was
not Kissing you, but those people upon the
stage, who sing so loud that ] am pre-
vented from catching few parts Of your
interesting conversation" The young
man subsided amid general laughter, and
left with his girl for more congenial soci.
ETY. before the curtain rose on the next
act.-New York Cor Brooklyn Eagle.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17

One day when the temperature was in
the neighbOrhoOd Of nothing, a couple OF
colored inhabitants Of BucktOwn We're
overheard discussing the good luck which
horse shoe brings. Both Of the partici-
pants in the debate were Of the feminine
gender One was young good looking
and fairly dressed and affected all the
fashionable furbelows Of her white sisters,
while the other looked as If she had been
a participant In the first Punic war. Her
face had been gashed with a razor, one
eve was gone and as she walked she hob
bled Ms IL one leg had stopped growing be-
fore the other had She wore faded
calico dress and there was nothing 10 in
dicate that she wore anything else 70 keep
of the keen and cutting air.
~ tell yp', Hannah, yo' ought ter cit a
hoss shoe and nail ober 20 doah. Dare's
no better way ter keep out de cold and bad
luck" siIil the young c0lOred liebe, Who,
though protected by cloak, was shiyer-
ing
"Dare's nothing in IL, honey" answered
the relic. as her teeth ratified together;
"dare's nothing in il, When | got mar
ried ! got hull blacksmith shop full Oh
hOss shoes and nailed 'em all otter my
house Dey almost took de place oh
de shingles on de roof, SO many was dare;
and look at me now. Dare's mo in a
good days washin' dan in hundred hoss
shoos, honey, ey,"-Cincihnati Times-Star.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17

"You never heard of negroes dying OF
consumption before the war, said an en-
Virginia slave the other day. 1T ~ only
within the past twenty-five years that the
disease has fastened its clutches upon our
people. In the old days il was n pretty
lazy coon that caught anything worse
than licking. The slave always had too
much to do 10 spend any time lying around
for consumption TO light upon him. He
got up early in the morning, worked hard
all day and went 10 bed early at night.
He ate 'possum and yans, and sang and
danced when the days work was done.
This sort Il living and exercise made the
slave proof Against consumption and lung
diseases. II is alldiflerent now. There
are a heap of young 'coons' lying round
town playing Christmas gigs in the policy
shops and shooting craps In some alley,
who are keeping open house for just such
callers as spinal meningitis and consump-
ton. .n-ChicagO Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17
An Esauimaa Dog Team.

81 am told that there is 10 be an Esqui-
mau dog team at the carnival, said Mr.
J. H. Hubbard. who had charge Of the
hibition. at would be a splendid attrac-
ton II they have good team" ''Is it
not your team that is TO be exhibitedr'
asked a reporter. Mo- was the reply.
"Mine were stuffed, and have left them
In England. IL was the same team which
conveyed Mai, Jarvis right through from
Fort Churchill. and their reward ON arriy-
ing at Winnipeg was 10 be poisoned by
prussic acid and stuffed for exhibition. I
have the harness here with me.n "IIow
many dogs do they usually have TO a
team" was the next question. There
are usually four, but very often six or
eights IL would not do, however, 10 have
more than four in team to I've driven
through the streets, as with the bands or
music, the noise and the crowd Of people
they would he hard 20 manage.
"The best dog is cross between a wolf
and collie sldt. They are not savage,
but on the contrary are very devoted TO
the man who feeds them. They are very
peculiar In this respect A man may drive
. team five years and feed them every
night, but II he sells them, the buyer feeds
them, and thereupon he becomes their
boss. They give implicit obedience to the
man who feeds them last Good dogs are
worth from S2j TO $50. They used TO be
employed in drawing fish from Lake VIM
nipeg into the town, and are often used
yet BY the Indians who come I'm on treaty
days for their pGy. When the Indians
have their sun dance they kill and eat the
Oldest aud most worthless Of the dogs, for
ft would never do 10 have dance with
out meal Of roast dog afterward. The
Gtonies never do this, but the Crees, the
Sioux and some other tribes do."-Mon-
fraal Gazette.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17
SCARED INTO REFORMATION.
An Old Railroader's story-A Close Call
for "A Drunken Man.

Tor % Drunken Wan.
.'Out on our Nebraska linz. near Sutton,
Clay county" said railroatler who for
many years had owed allegiance to the
great Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
"there used 10 live man named Potter
a rather old man. who had seen better
days, but who was then living In dugout,
About two miles from town, and close by
the railroad track. He was fearful old
drunkard, too, and used To go 10 town
about every other day and fill up at Pat
Curran's saloon, starting home late IN the
evening, and always taking the railroad
track. Being an old man, and not able to
stand such big and bad doses Of liquor as
Pat gave him, he often fell down on the
track and went to sleep. Time and again
our boys stopped their trains on discover
ing old Potter ahead, and, OF course, saved
his life every time they did IL. IL got to
be so that il was rule Of the road along
by Sutton 10 look out for old Potter
After time the boys got tired of 1t, and
got the local agent To notify the old man
that he'd got 10 keep off the truck or get
| hurt. This had no effect, and Potter used
| our ties for bed quite as often as before.
| One winters night in 1874 Dave Thomp-
son-he's now superintendent at Lincoln,
but he was then "A freight conductor-one
night Dave was running an extra cattle
train from Lowell, and as they reached
the top OF the hill going down 10 Sutton,
Dave was in the engine cab, and he said:
"'Keep a sharp lookout for old Potter.
II he's on let's give hlm a scare.
"Pretty soon the engineer sighted a
dilapidated form ahead on the track, and
declared that il was the old man. Whistle
for brakes, said Thompson, but let her
run pretty free, and Wen shake the old
man up bit.
"The boys all entered into the spirit OF
thing. Their purpose was 10 run the loco.
motives nose right into the old man and
rouse him without hurting him, with the
idea OF giving him good scare But the
weight Of the train and the grade proved
pretty bad things TO calculate 10 such a
fine point, and when the locomotive
reached the old man the boys all had
their hearts in their throats and feeling
that they were little better than murder.
ers. They jumped down, expecting 10
find Potter all mashed to pieces, but there
he was under the engine, snug up against
the fire box, where he had been rolled and
pushed along on the snow for two or three
rods. lie was evidently warm on the
side next the fire box and cold on the
other, for just as the boys got to him they
heard him mutter:
"I shay, ole 'oman-shay-yer pullin'
all 'er cover off'n me-
"well, the boys got him out, and were
delighted 10 find that he wasn't much
hurt. As soon as they got him thor
oughly reused he was the most fright
ened man that ever was, That scare
proved his salvation, for he braced up and
reformed, and now owns one Of the finest,
best stocked farms in Clay county. got
this story from one Of our Nebraska men,
and know it to be true. Chicago Herald
l,1'rain Talk "
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17
A Trick which Did Not Work.

This case bears on Gen. McClellan's
statement that returned prisoners who
had allowed themselves TO DE captured
got promotions through Mr.. Lincoln's
lnisapplied sylnpaihies.
A senator called at the war Office 10
urge that Col. -, Of New York, be ex-
changed, he had been so long prisoner
and mnny others were now being ex-
changed.
Mr.. Stanton said; ~ know all about
Col. IS case. He allowed himself 10
be captured 10 get exchanged and a fur
Tough. He may stay down there now and
have a good time in prison. Col n. 4.
HartshOrn
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17
Fashion in Novels.

Noyelists have gotten up a corner on
weird and startling subjects and thrilling,
CHASTITY tales now hare the call Novels
have their fashion and the novelist must
cater 10 the current desire. The Howells-
james novels are losing their popularity,
sons belong are gaining the public's ear
This change In the taste OF novel readers
occurs every few years, and II the libra
ries had kept record Of the character Of
tales called for most frequently during
certain periods they could tell just how
long fashion lasted and when its turn
came again. Atall events, il looks as II
Poe's style Of literature Is going TO have
another. r.-Professor Morgan.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17

One OF the great mining schemes in
California is a twelve mile tunnel for
draining the entire group OF mines in Ne
vada City and Grand valley, The water
power OF Yuba river will be used 10 drive
the drills and propel the cars. The tun-
mel where IL enters the mines will be 200
feet below the service. There has been
subscribed : 900, 900 toward the expenses
Of the work, but the engineer expects %
pay the cost from the ore extracted IN
digging. Leslie's.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17
To Save Drowning Horses.

A Bangor Ice man says that they never
take a horse on the ice without tying a
rope around his neck, 50 that II he gets
into the water the rooe may lc frightened
and the animal cSoked. The strangled
horse at once puiis up and rises 10 tho
surface, anil Is then usually pulled out
without much trouble, and wnen he is
well away from the hole the moose is
loosencd and lie gets his wind again. A
few hours hard work generally warns the
chilled horse thoroughly, aud be is none
the worse for his cold bath.
Call.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17

Mr. +. Martin, Of Munich, manufact-
ures compound consisting chiefly Of
common salt, alum, soluble glass and
tongstate Of soda, which has been intro
duced with great success in Austria and
Switzerland for the extinction OF fires, and
Is now being used In Germany, where the
admiralty have recommended IL TO their
navy yards.-Boston Transcript
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17
A Man In His Prime,

The venerable James jackson, who was
the Ncstor of the medical profession for SO
long time in Boston, used 10 say that a
man came TO the prime Of his effective fac.
ulties when he was 6j years old. He said
that IL was true that the curve OF physical
strength was then declining. But expert.
ence and the ability TO act which comes
from experience are, Of course, constantly
improving while memory holds. Accord
ing 10 Dr. jackson the curve Of experience
and the curve of physical life cross each
other at the age OF G5.-Boston Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-17
Not All Satisfied.

"And SO your dear Uncle David Is dead'
Was he sick loDgi' "Not q great while,
but he was great sufferer. Everything,
however, was done for him that was pos
sible." "Tlen, OF courae, you ere all
satisfied With h.s mediccl treni;scnt"
"Oh, yes. thai Is 10 say, I'll q us except
Cousin Jc'aA Uncle David didn't leave
John anything bas tie iamBy LII. -
Boston transcript.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-11
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters OF Money and Management
About Various Lines.

Matters OF Money and Management
About Various Lines.
The Clearwater and Tampa Railroad
Company (Florida) have organized
ID. H. Vissrher has received the contract
to build the Atlanta and Hawkinsville rail-
road from Knoxville to Fort Valley.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad Company are receiving bids for
the erection of the roundhonse and repair
machine shops at Macon. also for the cree
ton of depots at several places.
The railroad committee of the Legislature
have decided to recommend favorably the
Marietta and North Georgia extension bill.
There was not one vote against such recon-
mendation. The bill is sub; tantially as in
troduced, the amendments made by the
committee being immaterial. The com
mittee also recommended the pas
sage of the following bills: Charter
ing the Lexington Terminal railroad
the Townsville and Ty-Ty railroad: the
Chattanooga and Southern railroad: the
Macon Terminal railroad; amending the
Charter of the Griffin, LaGrange and IVES
tern railroad, and changing the name to the
Birmingham and Atlantic Airline; amend
ing the charter of the Darien Short Line
railroad, and the Brunswick street railroad
Owing to the death of Mr.. Sweetapple the
Orange Belt Investment Company, Oak
land, Fla, was left without quorum in its
directory. To fill the vacancy, a meeting
of the stockholders was held at Oakland
last week, whereat William Macleod was
elected a director. After this action a
meeting of the directors was held. Josef
Henschen was elected secretary and
William Macleod was elected treasurer
On the Friday following, funds which
Mr.. Demens had arranged for in New
York arrived, and prompt arrangements
were made to settle the claims against the
company. AS result of this action all
suits which had been brought were dropped,
and the clouds were thus removed It is
not at all probable that there win be any
further hitch in the construction of this
line, and as iron has commenced to arrive,
il is expected that there will be some very
lively track laying between Clermont and
Point Pinelas, on the Gulf
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-11
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News REPORTERS.

Savannah Lodge No. 2l7, l. o. B. B., will
hold its regular meeting this evening.
Last night was very quiet one in police
circles, only four arrests being made up TO
II O'Clock
The mortuary report of the last week
shows p deaths, whites and 10 blacks,
This is a ratio per 1000 population of
1l.6 for the whites and 5l.9 for the blacks.
MesSrs. A. r. Salas 6 Co. cleared yester-
day the Italian bark Madre Rosa, for Bue-
nos Ayres, with 1900 barrels of rosin,
weighing gO6, 030 pounds, valued at Sc, 727,
and 900 cases of spirits turpentine, meas
uring 10000 gallons, valued at 5000, and
1902 pieces pitch pine humber, measuring
~. 3!h feet, valued at =, ol2 IS. Total val
uation Of cargo, SIS, $50 IS.
The convicts of Chatham county, now
near Cole City, have written to the Presi-
dent OF the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union asking for supplies for Sunday
school and library they are about to start.
All persons having suitable books, or who
are DESTROYS OF contributing money for the
purchase Of books, can send the same to
Mrs. r. Webb at the residence OF Rev. r.
Webb, 15j South Broad.
John Anderson. big burly negro, was
sent to Jail yesterday by Justice Russell.
Anderson Is charged with having stolen
some tools from T. D. Blackwell last Jan
uary When be was first arraigned he was
released or bail, but on the first opportunity
he jumped il, leaving his bondsman in the
lurch. Friday night he was arrested by the
police for beating his wife, and the Mayor.
on being informed of the facts regarding
him, turned him over TO the Magistrates
Court yesterday. He was rather obstreper-
Gus in the Office and it took good hickory
cane TO bring him to terms.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-11
THE BEAULIEU MYSTERY,
The Murderer and His Victim Seen
The Authorities Act.

The Murderer and His Victim Seen
The Authorities Act.
1t was learned yesterday that the children
of Mr.. Jack Allen, who lives near Beaulieu
had seen the woman who was murdered at
that place, but they were not near her and
could not identify her. Dr. Falligant said
that on Aug. 5 he and some other gentlemen
sailed over the course selected for the yacht
race which took place on Aug. 8. While
going down the river ne met the
Ida c., which is Capt. Thompson's
sloop, sailing up the river, and there
was a man and a woman aboard her. When
he returned in the evening he saw the Ida
q. anchored off Beaulieu, but her sails were
down and there was no one aboard. That
afternoon the Allen children saw man
and woman together on the Beaulieu cause
way, and the man carried a muskst. A
few hours later they saw the same man,
but he had no musket nor was the woman
with him.
This forms another link in the remarka-
BILE chain of eircumstantial evidence, that
seemed to prove almost conclusively that
the murdered woman was Mrs Thompson.
and the proof seems still to pile up after the
discovery that Mrs Thompson is alive and
well 1t is probable that, while the meeting
of the Ida c., and her desertion after she
was anchored Is in no way connected
with the crime, the Allen children
did see the real murderer and his victim,
but who they are no one can tell SO strong
was the evidence in favor of the theory that
the dead woman was Mrs. Thompson that
even after the statement that she had been
seen by her cousin was published, there were
many people who were unwilling to believe
that she was still alive, so the correspondent
OF the MORNING News at Darien was wired
and the following reply was received
"fhompson's wife is now living on the
Ridge. She says that the rumor of her
death arises from her husbands threats to
kill her while in Savannah. Gleason Is also
here"
The County Commissioners. realizing
what terrible thing it is to have so hor-
rible crime committed within the county
limits, and approaching the necessity of
hunting down the murderer and melting
out justice to him, held a special meeting
yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock and adopted
the following resolution:
WHEREAS, There is manifest laxity in the pur-
suit and punishment of criminals and in ferret
ing out the perpetrators of crime,
ResotUed, That the Commissioners of Chat
ham county will cooperate with the Solicitor
General OF this circuit In the detection and prose
cution of criminals, by defraying from the
county funds the reasonable expenses of the
county officers, while acting under the direction
or approval OF the Solicitor General, in pursuing
and arresting persons guilty of crimes commit
ted In this county.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-11
NEW ORLEANS BEATEN.
Birmingham Played a Fine Game and
the Pelicans Couldn't Bat.

Birmingham Played Fine Game and
the Pelicans Couldn't Bat.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. lot was no use,
New Orleans couldn't win to-day. No mat
ter how hard the batters hit the ball it went
right into the hands of some Birmingham
fielder, The latter played fine game, and
Masran made the star catch OF the season,
catching fly with one hand with his back
against the right field fence. Kelly pitched a
good game, and New Orleans got men on
third several times but could not bat them
in. Aydelotte also pitched good game, and
was well supported. New Orleans made
four double plays and did other nice field
work, but Powell's arm was out of gear and
his successive failures to throw accurately
to first were what lost the game. The game
was lifeless and was witnessed by small
crowd. Stallings was hurt during the game
and Jack Hayes took his place. The score
by innings and summary follow:
Birmingham. 0 o 0 0 o. 3
New Orleans . 0 / 0 o. /
Batteries -Aydelotte and Wells, Kelly and
Stallngs and Hayes
Base hts-New Orleans Z, birmingham.
Stolen bases-Campau2 2; Cartwright 6; Klus-
man l. Birmingham 9.
Errors-New Orleans 2 Birmingham 4.